Sr Manager, Product Management

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division-Specific Information:

This position is within the Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Division of the Analytical Instruments Group. The employee will be located in Sunnyvale, California.

How will you make an impact?

The Senior Manager, Product Management for Ion Chromatography/Sample Preparation (IC/SP) Business Unit will lead a team of Product Managers accountable for the global strategic direction and vitality of new and existing products for the entire product portfolio within the business unit. This includes overall responsibility and accountability for delivering on the product lines' revenue, profitability, and growth. They will be responsible and accountable for understanding customer needs, analyzing market conditions (working with marketing teams), defining features or functions, and ultimately delivering a product and product retirement. This role spans different activities from strategic to tactical and will serve as an interdisciplinary role between R&D, operations, marketing, and commercial organization.

What will you do?

• People Management
  • Lead and develop a high-performance Product Management team.
  • Define goals in terms of achieving the organization's business objectives.
  • Monitors and manages the development of the team and related performance issues.
  • Ensures successors are identified for critical roles.
  • Drives action planning and initiatives across the team incorporating Employee Involvement Survey or other feedback.
  • Role models Thermo Fisher Scientific 4i values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement and creates an environment that encourages others to demonstrate the 4ivalues.

• Product Revenue and Vitality Metrics
  • Expert understanding and control of profitability, margins, and lifecycle.
  • Accountable for product revenue and vitality across assigned responsibilities.
  • Drives changes based on strategic shifts and internal and external factors in conjunction with stakeholders.
• Portfolio Roadmap and STRAP Planning
  • Accountable for portfolio roadmap and strategy for assigned area of responsibility.
  • Influences STRAP process in partnership with marketing and business leaders.
  • Partners with business and functional experts to drive the OEM strategy and opportunities within the business unit.
  • Advises on strategic marketing plans to achieve objectives for products and services.
• Product Life Cycle Management
  • Defines end-to-end product lifecycle requirements for business.
  • Accountable for all tasks for the entire product range within a business, including product quality and performance, data integrity, end-of-life determination, and process.
• R&D Roadmap and New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI)
  • Influences strategy based on global market, competitive dynamics, and regional-specific variations.
  • Ensures alignment with business strategy and goals defined by the business leadership team.
  • Partners with R&D & PMO to oversee NPDI processes within the business, including product roadmap, business plans, and market requirements, ensuring compliance with established processes and guidelines.
  • Contributes to and ensures compliance with established processes and guidelines.
  • Drives resolution of escalations.
  • Creates product roadmap, establishes a business plan, and identifies market requirements definition (MRD).
• Strategic Pricing
  • Accountable for the pricing strategy for assigned responsibility.
  • Recommends product positioning, packaging, and pricing strategy to produce the most substantial possible long-term market share.

How will you get here?

Education

• Bachelor's degree in the scientific or business field
• Master's degree highly desirable - MS, Ph.D., or MBA

Experience

• 10+ years of related experience required; prior Product Management experience preferred.
• People Management:
  • 5+ years of management experience within product management, market development, product marketing, or related functions with a demonstrated track record of success
  • Ability to build, manage, and inspire teams across a matrix environment; effective at influencing others and building relationships with a collaborative approach
  • Experience leading a multinational/multicultural team, including remote staff.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Business Strategy and Financial Awareness
• Analytical Reasoning
• Market and Competitor Knowledge
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Customer Insights and Advocacy
• Technical Knowledge and Execution
• Problem-Solving, Strategic Thinking, Adaptability, Interpersonal Skills, Influential, Prioritization Capabilities
• Strong written, interpersonal, and oral communication skills and preferred experience working cross-functionally across many areas and levels of an organization.
• Strong commercial & business acumen with a bias for execution
• Ability to take projects from strategy to execution with great attention to detail and innovative thinking.
• Ability to travel up to 30% - domestic & international

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $155,900.00-$233,500.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards